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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RDF4J vs. TypeDB

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.comraima.comrdf4j.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.raima.comrdf4j.org/­documentationtypedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Raima Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Vaticle
Initial release2012198420042016
Current release3.11.5, November 202315, June 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
Java
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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ArangoDBRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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